HC Deb 10 June 1907 vol 175 cc1086-7
MR. WEIR

I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether the drainage at Colwyn Bay has yet been linked up with the new drainage system; and, if not, will he state the cause of the delay.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. JOHN BURNS, Battersea)

I have made inquiry on this subject, and am informed that the whole of the drainage of Colwyn Bay has been linked up with the new drainage system, and that the old sewer outfalls have been done away with.

MR. WEIR

When will they be done away with?

MR. JOHN BURNS

They have been done away with.

MR. WEIR

Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the smells are most offensive and dangerous to the public health?

MR. JOHN BURNS

I gather that a Member of this House went to this particular neighbourhood last year and thought he smelt a smell, but that smell did not emanate from the drain or the sewer outfalls, but was an escape from a gas main.

MR. WEIR

I was that Member, and I remember the smell was foul and fœtid.

MR. HERBERT ROBERTS (Denbighshire, W.)

Are not the local authorities carrying out improvements at a cost of thousands of pounds, and have not the reports of the Medical Officer of Health and the death rate been most satisfactory for years past?

MR. JOHN BURNS

I am satisfied that the local authority has been and is doing everything that can be done.